The cocaine -- about 880 pounds of it...

COCAINE SEIZED.

September 4, 1988

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — COCAINE SEIZED. The cocaine -- about 880 pounds of it -- was bound for the United States. Colombian drug agents seized it Saturday at El Dorado Airport, the biggest haul there this year. The drug, packed in 16 boxes and stashed in a container, was aboard an Eastern Airlines plane that was about to take off for New York. No arrests were made. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that nearly 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States comes from Colombia. The trade is controlled by two cartels in the cities of Medellin and Cali. They are in a bloody fight over the New York market. About 80 people have been killed in recent months.